SharePoint Server 2016 – My new Lab

Not sure why Microsoft does this, is it to push all of us to the cloud?

But for each version of SharePoint the need for servers seems to explode, this is my shinny new SharePoint 2016 lab, I’m trying to follow the guides for MinRole.

Maybe I overdoing it but it turns out, I’ll need at least 7 servers to build a new SharePoint 2016 Farm with the services I need.

Server role

Description

Front-end

Service applications, services, and components that serve user requests belong on Front-end web servers. These servers are optimized for low latency.

Application

Service applications, services, and components that serve backend requests (such as background jobs or search crawl requests) belong on Application servers. These servers are optimized for high throughput.

Distributed cache

Service applications, services, and components that are required for a distributed cache belong on Distributed Cache servers.

Search

Service applications, services, and components that are required for searching belong on Search servers.